lizardling

plural lizardlings

1. A small, young, or immature lizard.

   Lizardlings thus hatch out and wander off on their own without parental contact or the opportunities for learning that such contact provides.

   1988, New York Zoological Society, Animal kingdom - Volume 91 - Page 10

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   Of reptiles there was a broken skull of some lizard, long since dead, and the eggshell of a lizardling which had hatched and gone forth upon his mission into the jungle.

   1916, The Atlantic monthly, volume 117, page 45

   [...] a little nest of dirty white rubber-shelled eggs, and recognized them for the treasure of Mrs. Sceloporus occidentalis, she left them there to complete their six-weeks period of incubation, and to turn into inch-long lizardlings.

   1928, Nature magazine, volumes 11-12, page 47